Towards the end of my time at Casa Locarno Tim a friend from home came out to stay with me for a few days. Guests were not allowed to stay in the house so we had to smuggle him in and out to the attic at the top of the building where we hung sheets. He bedded done on the wooden boards.
Tim brought with him a cassette of Aural Sculpture, The Stranglers album from 1984. We listened to it in my room. Golden Brown and Strange Little Girl a coupe of years earlier had marked out the beginning of the big sea change for the band. They had mellowed over time by now and set their co-ordinates for the charts and Radio 2.
Neither of us complained. It was a great record. Skin Deep the big commercial number had hit the upper reaches of the Single Charts. No Mercy made a lesser splash. Let Me Down Easy was less memorable still, but was still clearly The Stranglers. The middle of the road Men In Black.
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